This is MBC Fashion
The Black Student Alliance at MBC is hosting its annual fashion show 7 p.m. March 31 in Hunt West. Check out their fashionable teaser videos on the college’s YouTube channel, shot and edited by student Sydni Ham ’14.

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Honors Convocation 2012The college community gathered inside Francis Auditorium last week for the annual ceremony to recognize student academic achievement.

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Students Protest Teen’s KillingStudents joined thousands of voices around the United States to speak out on behalf of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teenager who was shot to death in a Florida neighborhood.

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Faculty AchievementsThe latest faculty accomplishments in the School of Arts, Humanities, and Renaissance Studies

15-year-old finds challenges … in college"It’s more challenging than high school and I like that I meet people my age who want to be challenged as well," said Cheyenne Crowe, a student in MBC’s Program for the Exceptionally Gifted.

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April 2Wear White for Women’s RightsMBC Junior Jessi McLaughlin will join thousands of people across the country Monday who are protesting what they consider recent overreaching legislation targeted at women’s reproductive rights. The Wear White for Women’s Rights event, which calls for participants to dress in white clothing, is based on Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee’s nonviolent protest for women’s rights in Liberia. The founders of the event, including Cass Morris, an MBC MLitt grad, have ties to MBC as well. "I am planning to wear white on Monday because I think it is utterly ridiculous that it’s 2012 and there are still glaring inequalities between women and men," McLaughlin said. "I think it would be wrong for me, as a woman, not to support a cause that would help myself and my future."

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April 5The Mary E. Humphreys Biology Lecture Todd Scanlon, associate professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, presents this year's Mary E. Humphreys Biology Lecture at 5:30 p.m. in MBC's Francis Auditorium. Scanlon's current research involves understanding how the hydrological cycle, vegetation processes, and atmospheric dynamics are linked, as well as how these connections are manifest in terms of nutrient cycling and ecosystem function. The lecture series was established in 1992 in honor of Mary Humphreys, the late professor emerita of biology, who served on the biology faculty at Mary Baldwin College for 25 years (1943–68). The annual talks, sponsored by friends and former students of Humphreys, have brought prominent scientists to campus, such as Francis Collins, leader of the Human Genome Project.